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00:00One thing I could say to my baby when he watches us back is...
00:05I love you.
00:06I love you so much.
00:07We love you.
00:08You are so loved.
00:09Yeah.
00:10You are so immensely loved and adored already before you even took your first breath.
00:18Right.
00:19And we are so excited to meet you and get to know you.
00:25And you're right here, right now.
00:27You're right here.
00:27You're right here with us.
00:28So, hey.
00:31Hey, y'all.
00:32I'm Soraya.
00:33Hi, I'm Joey Badass.
00:35And this is our Of The Essence cover shoot.
00:47We do have some traditions that we want to pass down to our children.
00:53Some of those being what?
00:55Brought you in this world and I'll take you right out of it.
00:57Gosh.
00:58Straight to the drama.
01:00Straight to the drama.
01:01So, some traditions I feel like I would want to pass down to my children are definitely
01:07like church, having dinner together at the same time, you know, in the crib.
01:13I think that was something that was super special that I was made to do as a kid and take that
01:21time to really just like lock in on family time and connect.
01:25What is another tradition?
01:26What is another tradition?
01:27I'm going to be waking up really early in the morning.
01:29Christmas is big for me.
01:29Christmas is big for me.
01:30So, I'm decorating.
01:33You know, we doing one gift Christmas Eve.
01:35You get to open one gift Christmas Eve.
01:37You have to open one gift Christmas Eve.
01:40And then Christmas morning is early.
01:42We opening the gifts and we chilling and watching movies and stuff like that.
01:47But you know what?
01:48Ain't no Santa Claus.
01:49Yeah.
01:50And another tradition I'm passing down is the truth.
01:53There we go.
01:54And my parents definitely told me the truth.
01:56That part.
01:57My mom was like, wait a minute.
01:58Yeah, because I'm sorry.
01:59My kids ain't about to believe in some fat white man coming down the chimney.
02:03You know what I'm saying?
02:04Mama and daddy worked hard for those gifts.
02:09No Santa Claus.
02:10Daddy Claus and Mama Claus.
02:11And I mean, listen, I just really unity, community, doing things together, you know?
02:20Um, I didn't see a lot of that in my childhood.
02:23So, that's something that I would like to implement in my children's lives, for sure.
02:28Another one that I want to pass down that I didn't have a ton of is like family video,
02:35family portraits, family photo books.
02:39Photo albums.
02:40Photo albums.
02:41Yeah.
02:42So, that's something that I'm currently working on and something that I've always had a passion
02:46for doing.
02:47Um, because everything's in the cloud, but...
02:50You working on that by yourself?
02:51I feel like, we're working on it.
02:53There you go.
02:54But, it has been a thing of mine.
02:56I have a lot of photo albums that I've started.
02:59I started, like, early 20s.
03:02I started my photo albums.
03:03So, it's a passion of mine, because I really love the physical.
03:06I like capturing the moment.
03:08I like to go back and flip through the books.
03:10Like, when I was little, I would go to my grandma's house and she would have a book.
03:14And that's something that I always wanted.
03:16I feel like the most important thing that's brought me peace during this whole journey being
03:23pregnant is support.
03:26Support from Joey.
03:29Support from my family and my friends.
03:32Always checking up on me.
03:34Just feeling that love.
03:36I literally cried the other day, because I was just so filled with gratitude and just
03:41filled with love and support.
03:43And I don't think I've felt that much before in that type of way.
03:48So, I'm super blessed.
03:50Like, I feel really good about that.
03:52That's something that's definitely kept me in good spirits.
03:55And when the hormones take over, Babe is a great, a great listener.
04:01I try.
04:03And he definitely keeps me level-headed.
04:08So, I would say support.
04:11Advice for my soon-to-be parents and parents out there.
04:17I would say patience.
04:21You know, patience is literally a virtue.
04:24And it is required to do this parent thing, you know?
04:28I think parenthood puts an emphasis on how much control, like, you don't always have in life.
04:39You know what I mean?
04:40Like, you're only in control of what it is that you do and how you show up every day.
04:45Yeah, you know, you've got to practice patience because these kids, they'll test that.
04:52They'll test that.
04:54You know what I mean?
04:55And, yeah, patience.
04:58Amazing.
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